joining us now is the great steve kornacki. steve, thank you for being here tonight. >> happy to be here. >> so, looking at those numbers, obviously, there's some democrats who are leaving too, but it's about double the number of republicans. is it actually a lot? is this a lot of retirements on the republican side? >> it is, yeah. and here's how i kind of look at those numbers. that 39, you can take some of those off, because there are republicans who are running for the senate, running for governor. they're not really retiring. they actually see opportunity this year. so, if you look at just the core group who are actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22, but that 22, by comparison, think back to one of the last major wave elections we had in a midterm, you had it there, 2010, barack obama's first midterm, democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of pure retirements in 2010? it was 11. so, half the number we had now. go back to 2006, bush's second midterm. republicans got

so steve kornacki's at the big board tonight with a look at what that will tell us about what's comingsteve. >> hey, brian. yes, republicans getting nervous. they're nervous about their prospects. they're nervous the president maybe doesn't see what they're seeing. we want to take you through what we think is sort of at 9 heart of this disconnect. first of all republicans like paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, the establishment, what is it exactly that they're seeing right now when they look at the midterms? one thing they're looking at is a low approval rating for donald trump. we know this. we know he's at 42%. he's been around there for a while. that is the hit zone historically for a president in a midterm to lose a lot of seats. look, trump 42. that mid-40s, high 30s, that has translated into mega losses in the past. again, remember the number this year, 23. that's all republicans can afford to lose. certainly historically he's already in the hit zone. what else do republicans see? you mentioned it there. the special election results. look at this. five times now since trump has become

steve kornacki at the big board. morgan redford is our correspondent at don blankenship's headquarters in charleston, west virginia, tonight. i watched your interview with blankenship from earlier today. he looked you right in the eye. he was confident they may have this in the bag tonight. how about third place? >> reporter: well, brian, he not only told me that he was confident he was going to win, he said, i absolutely will win. tonight as you can see, the room has cleared out, and this is after don blankenship has conceded. and the question now becomes what is next for the people of west virginia? as for him, he tells me, one, i'm too old to run again. he says, two, i'm not going to run as a third-party candidate. and he also says, i'm still upset at my opponent, patrick morrisey, and he says he's even considering running campaign ads against him because in some cases he considers him to be worse than the democratic senator joe manchin. but he also said he's particularly still upset with who he called the swamp c

joining us now is the great steve kornacki. steve, thank you for being here tonight. >> happy to be here. >> so looking at those numbers, obviously, there's some democrats who are leaving too, but it's about double the number of republicans. is it actually a lot? is this a lot of retirements on the republican side? >> it is, yeah. and here's how i kind of look at those numbers. that 39, you can take some of those off, because there are republicans who are running for the senate, running for governor. they're not really retiring. they actually see opportunity this year. so if you look at just the core group, who are actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22. >> okay. >> but that 22 by comparison, think back to one of the last major wave elections we had in a midterm, you had it there, 2010. barack obama's first midterm. democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of few retirements in 2010? it was 11. so half the number we had now. go back to 2006, another one of those midterms,

steve kornacki manning the big board tonight with full results. "the 11th hour" on a tuesday evening begins now. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 481 of the trump administration, and as promised, we have news just breaking tonight from "the new york times," minutes before we walked into the studio, in fact. it's about an e-mail related to the russia investigation. dual byline on the piece. quote, the white house official had a startling assertion. he thought he had received an e-mail in the first half of 2016 alerting the trump campaign that russia had damaging information about hillary clinton. testifying behind closed doors on capitol hill in late march, the official john k. mashburn said he remembered the e-mail coming from george papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the campaign who was approached by a russian agent sometime before the party conventions and well before wikileaks began publishing messages stolen in hackings from democrats. such an e-mail could have proved explosive prov

and that means it's time for us to hear from steve kornacki on what we know about the results and whatshould be watching. steve, what happened? >> well, what happened, lawrence, is republicans in washington, they are breathing a sigh of relief. they sounded the alarm in the last 72 hours, saying that this man right here, don blankenship, might be on the verge, they feared, of winning their primary for the u.s. senate in west virginia to run against joe manchin, the democrat. president trump of course even tweeted out, anybody but blankenship. well, blankenship finishes a very distant third tonight. now, is that because that last-minute intervention suppressed the vote for him, or is it because maybe they were a little too anxious to sound the alarm and be a little extra cautious? that's one we can debate going forward. that means that patrick morrisey, the attorney general of the state of west virginia, will oppose joe manchin this fall. a republican seeking to unseat a democrat in a state that president trump won by 42 points. one other footnote on this by the way. blankenship, of cou

steve kornacki is over the big board with why endangered democrats might be able to hang on. >>> plus, that shocking resignation overnight of one time force in the me too movement new york's attorney general quitting after four women accused him of abuse and assault. we've got more on the allegations and on the political overlay later on in the show. but we want to start with what's haepg happening here in the u.s. and i want to start with my colleague kristen welker at the white house. we have a lot to talk about this morning because i know you spoke with the president's lawyer rudy giuliani. we'll get to that in a minute. walk me through where the president's head is at on iran right now. he's on the phone, right, according to a white house official with the french president emmanuel macron. what do we know? what are we hearing? >> reporter: one of his closest allies not only to the u.s. but a foreign leader who president trump has forged a very strong relationship with macron was just here last week pressing the president to stay in the iran nuclear deal. but all signs, hallie, all

history has already been made in one of these tonight, our national political correspondent steve kornackialong with us back at the big board tonight. hey, steve. >> hey, brian. let's get you right to texas. a couple of contests have gone final. this is going to set up here a number of contests in the fall that could go a long way to determining who controls the house. there are a lot of pickup opportunities on the board in texas. in the 7th district, you're talking about houston, a district that's traditionally republican, that flipped to hillary clinton in 2016, still represented bycullberson. and lizzie fletcher defeats laura moser. this was the runoff tonight. in the preliminary, national democrats were worried about laura moser. she says this is the national party trying to meddle. national democrats said maybe we're better backing off. they backed off and the candidate they would have referred did win tonight, lizzie fletcher. along the southern border, this is will hurd, republican incumbent. you see the results. it will be a battleground this fall. again, democrats now have a nomin

here with the latest is correspondent steve kornacki. what do we got. >> it is coming in slowly. kind of expected that. we're waiting for the pace to pick up because what you could see right now, there is two things going on. if you look at this, and you say, woe, blankenship is in trouble. that may end up being the story. but -- what you are looking at with blankenship at 18% with a scattering of votes and mostly these are absentee ballots, cast a while back. not votes that were cast today. and this is the story here, the polling and the last public polling in this race about two weeks ago, blankenship was in third at 16%. the thing republicans have been warning about is there was a surge over the final weekend of this campaign that put him in first place. so we want to see election day vote and see if he's doubling up this 18%. we see him getting here in the absentee and the absentee seems contrary -- this is morgantown, west virginia university and a lot of the absentee vote is from there and then also the second big place, jefferson county and eastern panhandle almost the was

for more we are joined by the great steve kornacki, who is the man you want the talk to on nights like? >> not much of a contest. we know what democrats in georgia are in the mood for now. put this in some perspective. well talked about how georgia is changing demographically. in 2016 the margin here for donald trump, it was five points. in 2012, mitt romney won this by eight points. this is one democrats think is on the horizon with the democratic changes and with the influx of folks, especially the atlanta area. and i mean abrams, really, she just cleaned up everywhere. nothing geographically here really stands out. the far northern part of the state where there is very northern counties here, there are almost no black residents. even there we see abrams winning counties tonight. so not each much of a racial divide. who she case? casey cagle, the lieutenant governor, he is leading. georgia is a runoff state. he look likes he is going to be well short of 50%. i think we're going have to wait until july to have a runoff between brian kemp. casey cagle looks like a runoff. one other rac

steve kornacki with the big board. what should we be watching tonight? everybody can love an election, kasie. talking about the new lines in pennsylvania and what that means. let's put that in some perspective, old versus new. nationally democrats need 23 seats. they need a gain of 23 seats, get that nationally. they get back the house. so, before the withdraw of the map in pennsylvania, after the 2016 election, this is what things were looking like in pennsylvania. what you see here are five republican incumbents who were in districts in pennsylvania that either hillary clinton won or tied or where trump won but the margin was within single digits. you think if there was a wave election year, these are sort of the seats that would come into play. democrats were looking before they changed the map, look, in a great year, we can contest five and pick off a couple. knock down that 23 nationally. republicans were looking at it and saying, we can hold all or most of these seats in a really good year, too. that's what the playing field looked like, too, befor

at amy mcgrath has a unique candidate here who maybe has some unique appeal for a democrat. >> steve kornacki for joining us. you make it exciting even when it's already over. thank you, steve. >>> coming up, stacey abrams, the democratic nominee for governor of georgia delivered a powerful victory speech tonight. we have that for you next. ( ♪ ) mike: i've tried lots of things for my joint pain. now? watch me. ( ♪ ) joni: think i'd give up showing these guys how it's done? please. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are changing the way they fight it. they're moving forward with cosentyx. it's a different kind of targeted biologic. it's proven to help people find less joint pain and clearer skin. don't use if you are allergic to cosentyx. before starting cosentyx you should be checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms of an infection. or if you have received a vaccine, or plan to. if you have inflammatory bowel disease tell your doctor if symptoms develop or worsen. seri

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steve kornacki, thank you very much.ciate it. >>> my next guest travels outside the beltway in search of an answer. can donald trump win again? that is next. >>> i give him credit for -- >> the economy. >> i give him credit for -- >> north korea. >> the economy. >> the economy. >> the new tax changes. >> sticking to his promises. >> the economy and taxes. >> his guts. just being the president. >> tax changes. the divide in america. >> conservative judges. >> he's been a disappointment when it comes to -- >> his tweets. >> mueller. >> his mouth. his tweets. being kind. >> he's standing with the rest of the world. >> tweeting on petty issues. >> his action as president. >> unity. >> mimicking people. >> his actions. >> can donald trump win again? i'm sure a lot of you out there will declare, no, absolutely not, how could he? just look at x, y and z. but are those really the best indicators or your indicators of how well or poorly donald trump is doing? what if those who are looking at him are actually looking at a, b and c

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and msnbc's the great steve kornacki. steve, i want to start with you.'m so excited to have the big board on "kasie d.c." what are we looking at on tuesday? >> well, we're looking at a lot. let's get the count down going, kasie. 48 hours from now we'll get a lot of results. you mentioned west virginia, four states with primaries on tuesday. let's start in west virginia. you just had trump there crowd sourcing the poll. this is the most recent poll we got out of this republican primary in west virginia. the key name here, the one getting most attention is don blankenship. very controversial. did time in prison because of that coal mining tragedy. coal mine that he owned. there is some reporting this weekend that blankenship in some private polling may be moving up, may have a chance to win. of course, the republican establishment, they are trying to stop a mitch mcconnell, those folks, they think that's political suicide for republicans to nominate blankenship so we will see. look, on paper the winner of this primary has a golden opportunity because, of c

>> steve kornacki -- >> not yet. i've got an important question.o when you review the maps, when you crunch the data, when you look at all the analytics, do you think at the end of the day the red sox have a chance of winning one of three at yankee stadium. >> i'm from massachusetts of course you have to say yes. we're a couple months from football season, it's may. >> one other question. seriously. obviously i never at this time of the year and i'm sure you're the same way, i never look at generic ballot tests. just doesn't matter. it's always the intensity of the voters, the intensity of the base. now, we've seen in past elections democrats outperforming republicans. more democrats going to the polls. we saw it in 2010 throughout the year in the primaries especially. we saw it in 2008 barack obama and democrats getting outrageous turnouts state by state by state in the primaries. what happened last night? i heard -- did i read correctly that it was more of a leveling off that republicans -- as many republicans turned out as democrats. how did tha

joining me now from the big board is who else but steve kornac kornacki? steve, what will we learn tonight? >> we got suspense and mystery. a different unusual kind. west virginia right now, that looks like can blan kenship win this tonight? we don't have any polls that say he's got the lead that he's within striking distance. we have chatter and panic from republicans in washington and rival campaigns in west virginia touting internal polls that they say show blankenship surging taking the lead, maybe pulling away. we'll find out tonight if that is real. look, in the era of politics we live in, surprises like this, i guess sometimes we shouldn't be shocked if blackenship pulls this out. the question is if he wins tonight, he's the republican candidate. what does that do for republicans? this is the state in 2016 that donald trump won by 42 points. this is one of the biggest bis ch bas -- bthe comments he made. republicans will have to disown him. there might be trouble with money. remember, it is a 4 2-point trump state. the blankenship can overcome everyt

steve kornacki, thank you. charlie cook, the editor and publisher of "the cook political report," also an msnbc political analyst. charlie, what do you think? does blankenship have a chance? >> i think in a general election, i really, really, really don't think that don blankenship could beat joe manchin. i think so a republican, a generic republican would have a very good chance of winning the state, because of the increasing republican tilt to the state. but i'm not sure that someone who's got a -- you know, who has done time. i'm really, really doubtful that could happen. i think manchin is probably the only democrat, the only living democrat that could possibly care the state of west virginia, but, against an ex-con, i think manchin would win fairly comfortably. >> an ex-con who's running on the trump playbook. he's painting himself as a victim of a government conspiracy. that's why he served time and was criminally liable for the death of 29 people in his own mine. he's used racially charged language, is a

our own steve kornacki at the big board.us through what we need to know. >> you mentioned georgia and arkansas. let's look at texas. this is a state democrats talking about can they get the net gain of 23 to win back the house. they have a couple of targets they're eyeing in texas. there's one to focus on. houston, the 7th district. there's a democratic run off today. here's the backdrop. the winner of this democratic run off today is going to face a republican in exactly the kind of district nationally that democrats find the most enticing. this was a traditionally republican district. you go back half a century, george h.w. bush once represented this area. hillary clinton carries this district by a point in 2016. it's traditionally republican, suburban, college educated type district that's moved against donald trump. can democrats pick this thing off? they're choosing between these two candidates today. the reason this race got extra attention besides with us talking act about is laura mozer back in the preliminary nation

my friend steve kornacki is here at the big board. steve, what does stacey's win mean for the democratic strategy in november? we're talking about a more centrist candidate and left candidate. >> stacey, is not just winning this, she's swamped. stacey abrams. 3 to 1 margin now. the abrams strategy says, basically, in the trump era, there are voters who should be democrats who we can make democrats. get them energized. out to vote, younger, nonwhite single women. abrams says forget about ten years from now. let's do it now. he swins the primary. we don't know who the republican is, we'll have to wait a while to find out who stacey abrams runs against. here's the interesting thing, what she's up against in 2016, donald trump won this state by five points in 2012, mitt romney by eight. here's the other interesting thing, though, last night, there were competitive primaries in both parties. the last time you had competitive primaries in both parties in georgia, 2010. from 2010 to last night, the republican turnout was down 75,000. the demo

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i'm steve kornacki taking over our coverage there from chris jansing. again we are waiting for a couple things to be happening here in just a few minutes. wayne la pierre, head of the nra, is going to be introducing the president. the president is going to be speaking at the nra's annual convention in dallas. as we wait for that the vice president actually, mike pence, is speaking there right now to the nra convention in dallas. as we await the president in that speech in dallas, also the news coming in the last few minutes, you just heard it from kel i hly o'donnell, rudy giuli putting ot what he hopes will be some kind of clarifying statement. all the confusion about this payment of $130,000 to stormy daniels, when the president learned of that payment and when he learned of the nature of that payment. rudy giuliani certainly created some confusion with statements he made earlier this week, the president suggesting that giuliani didn't quite have his story straight so giuliani attempting to bring some clarity into that. let me start with geoff bennett

i'm steve kornacki in new york, in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin tonight with developments of the last 24 hours that can perhaps be summed up as trumpism on overdrive or trumpism run amuck. whether it's mock iing john mccain, noting quote, he's dying away or the immigration when the president dressed down his secretary during a cabinet meeting probabilitying here to nearly resign. or the hook the other way posture when it comes to the president's personal lawyer, profiting off of his access to the white house or the president sticking up for the embattled epa secretary. in both cases, cohen and pruitt it may seem like drain the swamp but neither has been cut loose. they would not deny reports that a communication staffer mocked john mccain because he was, quote, dying. >> i'm not going to comment on an internal staff meeting. >> does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks. >> again i'm not going to validate a leak one way or the other out of an internal staff meeting. >> are you saying she didn't say this? >> i'm in th

steve kornacki, nbc national political correspondent. let's go to the white house.ah sanders has begun the press briefing. >> as you all know, cia acting director gina haspel appeared before the senate intelligence committee today. she was introduced by two former members, democrat evan buy and republican sacks v. chambliss. they noted she is without question the most qualified person ever nominated for the position. mr. chambliss, a former vice chairman of the committee said he cannot name last time so many performance intelligence professionals agreed on a single nominee. and in her opening statement acting director haspel outlined what she is focused on to better position the cia for tactical and strategic success and to accomplish its mission. the acting director clearly demonstrated why the president selected her, her character, her experience, and her commitment to protecting the country. she is the right person to lead the cia and the senate should confirm her. because the president is traveling tomorrow and we won't have a briefing, i'm going to take advanta

steve kornacki takes over now. >>> to refresh everybody now, it is 11:00 a.m. on the west coast, 2:00 p.m. in washington. here is where we are as we continue with this breaking news kompl coverage. in a half-an-hour, sarah sanders sarah sanders with a press briefing expected to gin in about half-an-hour. nbc news has learned exclusively federal investigators tapped the phone lines of the president's long time lawyer michael cohen. it is unclear just how long michael cohen was under surveillance or when that surveillance began. what we do know is that the wiretap was in place weeks before the fbi raid on cohen's offices, hotel and home back in early april. at least one intercepted call made to a phone line associated with cohen came from the white house. so, the big question we are asking today -- what do the revelations about the kocohen wiretap mean for the president? more with the reporter who broke this story straight ahead. >>> if tirs, it first it is imp note the news comes quickly after other news, the president's attorney, rudy giuliani, an interview on

we've got steve kornacki at the big board and jacob taking us to the lone star state later on in the show. but we start with all those moving parts centered around the russia investigation. here's what we're watching the in of the last hour or so a classified briefing led by top trump officials on election security happened. we're starting to hear from lawmakers on that and we're waiting to hear from speaker ryan to see if he can tell us anymore about these new developments. in an hour we'll hear from members of the republican freedom caucus who wanted a essential spesht counsel to look into what they claim were surveillance abuses at the doj. this latest demand coming after the whout white house announced a deal to see highly classified material on the russia investigation. a lot going on in the next 60 minutes. let's bring in garrett haake on capitol hill. i've been watching you run around trying to talk with lawmakers about this election security briefing and about what's happening in an hour with this call for a second special counsel now. >> reporter: yeah, hallie, let's start w

who better to break it down than the master of our political break downs, my friend steve kornacki. lk me through it. specifically starting in pennsylvania. >> yeah. let's look at pennsylvania with this in mind. nationally democrats need to pick up 23 steeats. a gain of 23 gets them the house. why is pennsylvania critical? there's so much opportunity there. big state. remember, trump won it, but the margin was razor thin for trump, and yet at the same time, in a state this evenly divided in 20 16, republicans won the layon's share of house seats. democrats said it's because of jerly ma gerrymand gerrymandering. under the 2016 scheme, a lot of the republicans who got elected with donald trump, they did it in districts that were very competitive. not surprising here. for instance, a district voted for clinton by two votes, kos tell la incumbent, this is the old map. there were opportunities on this map heading into 2018 for democrats. the court said there was gerrymanders. they drew my lines. what's happen second down what was already a map full of opportunities for democrats is now ri

joining me, susan page, and nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big boardsteve, what are we watching? >> couple of exciting races to keep an eye on. number one, the race for governor for georgia. an interesting strategic choice here for democrats in that state and maybe nationally. stacy abrams making the argument that hey, the whole idea of bringing republicans into the fold, that's not the way to win elections in the trump era. you try to maximize excitement, maximize their interest, increase turnout, increase support there. on the other side, stacey heav saying you want to win in georgia, you got to have a message that appeals to trump voters. another one in the sixth district of kentucky, you've got the democratic primary there to keep an eye on. a lot going on, andrea. >> a lot of women out there, women, as steve was just pointing out, this could be pivotal, especially for democrats. >> yes, it certainly could. stacy abrams, she would be the first african-american woman elected governor in any state ever in the united states, amy mcgrath in the kentuck

. >> let's turn to our man, steve kornacki. eve, we heard morgan ratford there talk about don blankenship there in west virginia. again, as i noted, a few weeks ago, a lot of folks thought he was out of this thing and it looks like blankenship has a real shot at winning, no? >> yes, there's some unusual suspense and mystery about this thing. this is actually right here, you're looking at it, most recent public poll in this race. public, i mean a media poll, they show us all the numbers, we decide if it's reliable or not. here it was, blankenship running in third. this is after republicans in washington nationally they had spent a fortune trying to sink him. they looked that the saying mission accomplished, we don't want blankenship as our nominee, we're not going to get him. now, this is the last 48 hours. the thing here is these are headlines about internal poll, not public polls. we haven't seen them. you have got republicans from these rival campaigns in west virginia saying hey, our numbers show that in the last few days, bl

joining us now, national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc steve kornacki. chief of axios, nicholas johnston and political reporter for nbc news and msnbc, alex us. >> the story that's emerging in the last couple of days is in west virginia. it's the late momentum that blankenship has in this race. a three-way race, when you look at the public polling, it looked like he had faded back to third place, ten days ago. it looked like the effort from the republican establishment to suppress him was working. what's happened since then? he's dominated the coverage the last week of the race. he had a stylistically well received debate performance that got him some attention. the comments about cocaine mitch, the comments about his words here, china people owning the label that came to him of bigotry that came with that. he's dominated the coverage. this race has been all about him. the weird situation is we do not have a public poll, an nbc poll, a media organization poll that shows him leading this race there are internal polls that are panicking republicans from ri

. >> steve kornacki, we'll be watching. thank you, steve. not canada.e're not going to be watching canada. america. >>> anyway, another race we're keeping a close eye on is the georgia sixth congressional district where four democratic candidates are facing off today. the winner will challenge nominee karen handle in november who you may remember won last november in a closely watched special election. one of the candidates today is lucy mcbath. she jumped in after the parkland school shooting. her son was shot and kill in a gas station in 2012 by a man who complained his music was too loud. you might remember that story. she joins me now. thank you so much for being here, lucy. my brain is not working today. i'm having a hard time reading canada. we appreciate you being here. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> what would you say for you the number one issue is, and what distinguishes you from the other democrats in this race? >> well, of course, it's no secret about my history with gun violence prevention. and, of course, that is a

let's go to steve kornacki. he's on the big board tonight. >> polls closed. we will take you through what we can expect very quickly in the next 90 minutes if the past is prolonged, probably a third of the vote in west virginia will come in, in the next 90 minutes, we will know is blankenship for real? are the reports, the idea of him surging is based on internal polls. there is not a public poll out there showing. but republican internal polls that have set off panic in walk. that's the basis. so we will find out in the next 90 minutes, if he's for real. is he in the game? is he pulling away? we have polls closing in north carolina, two republican members of congress facing potential credible primary challenges, polls close in ohio. jim renacci going against sharod brown. two gubernatorials. mike de29 i wine, richard cordray, against dennis kucinich. we can show you this. chris we have a lot of numbers in indiana. this is for the republican nomination to oppose the democratic senator in indiana. a state trump won by 20 points. a fifth of the vote is in. we'r

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battle grounds of the 2018 midterms, and who better to help us understand it, my dear friend steve kornackis signature big board winners and losers. >> well, pennsylvania was the epicenter of most of the action last night. we start in nebraska of all places. omaha. this is the one congressional district in omaha that could be up for grabs this fall. this was the biggest surprise last night. potentially big implications here. democratic primary here. this is a district that donald trump won by only two points. democrats nationally are saying hey, this is one we can get back. brad ashford was already a congressman from this district. narrowly lost two years ago. they said run again. they got him into the race. he was challenged from the left. national progressive activists got behind kara eastman. she talked about single payer health care, and look at this in a very surprising result. she knocked off the establishment, and now there are democrats in washington certainly looking at this and saying there goes our chance of winning nebraska's second district. progressive activists are saying may

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joining us now, steve kornacki. what is the gop so nervous about in west virginia?ld he really win this thing? >> this is the million dollar question. the backdrop, this is the most pro trump state in america. every single county in 2016 in west virginia went for trump. he won the state by 42 points. you're not going to find a more pro trump state than that. here's the setup. joe manchin, the democrat, republicans in a state like this think that's a very ripe democrat. this is the most recent public poll we have. public meaning media organization sponsored it. we can review it. we know the numbers. it's a week old. look, a week ago this was the story. blankenship was running in third. republicans nationally for pouring money in trying to kill him politically. seemed to be working. in the last week, however, blankingship dominated coverage in the race. he got a stylistically well reviewed debate performance. there's been lots of controversy. this is what we have to go on right now. what this is, the headlines add up to panic from the republican establishment because